Alfonso Breschia's not an Italian director that makes you sit up and go "Yeah!" - He's more like Mike Bennett and his involvement with The Fall's Light User Syndrome album as in, he's part of something cool, but on his own he's 'not up to much'....wait that's not on that album.What I mean to say is Mike Bennett I mean Alfonso Breschia is more famous for releasing four or five Italian Star Wars rip offs: War of the Robots, The Beast in Space, Cosmos: War of the Planets, Star Oddesy and Battle of the Planets although I think that one is also Cosmos. In the large universe of Italian genre films, these are the Fall's receiver compilations and ENOUGH WITH THE FALL ANALOGIES!This one stars Peter Lee Lawrence (from Long Arm of the Godfather and whom died at the age of 30 of cancer) as the charming hired killer Silver, who is hired to find a bunch of masked guys who robbed a stagecoach. He does this by playing cards a lot, smoking a lot, and shooting people but only if they shoot first.However, someone seems to be either covering up their tracks or setting silver up for a fall as a lot of witnesses turn up dead, other members of the gang think Silver was part of the gang, and one of three main suspects could be the main gang leader, but who is it? This is as good an Alfonso Breschia film as you're going to get. It's much better than White Fang and the Hunter, the other Western of his I've watched. Very well made and looks great, with a slightly pedestrian story, bland hero and not much by way of great gunfights (although the last showdown is nice on the eyes, it's not very exciting).Remember: I won't go berserk if you don't scratch my nice blue stagecoach.

KILLER CALIBER .32 is a somewhat average spaghetti western that features a dull lead and a done to death revenge plot that doesn't really go very far in holding the viewer's attention. I'll lay a lot of the blame for that at the door of director Alfonso Brescia, a guy never known for making classy cinema; a lot of his later films fall into the so-bad-they're-good category, but this one's plain ordinary.The miscast Peter Lee Lawrence plays a gunslinger who goes after an evil gang, taking down the members one at a time. A lot of the running time is preoccupied with genre staples like good time girls, poker games, and bar-room brawls. The characterisation is virtually nil and the wooden Lawrence doesn't breathe any life into his character. There's not even much in the way of action, although that which does take place is acceptable enough; a pity that Brescia didn't make more effort as director.

I wasn't impressed with the other Peter Lee Lawrence spaghetti westerns I saw before watching "Killer Calibre 32", and this particular one wasn't that much better. I will say that it is not a terrible movie. The production values are good, there is a solid musical score, and Lawrence gives one of his better performances, playing someone somewhat colder and more dangerous than your typical spaghetti western anti hero. However, under the direction of Al Bradley, the movie is kind of dull. The hero's progression in completing the job that he has been hired to do goes by extremely slowly. Maybe this wouldn't have been so bad had there been some life in the surrounding material but there's little action, and with the exception of a good barroom brawl, it isn't particularly well done. While the movie is not aggressively bad, I would only recommend it for die hard spaghetti western fans.

Alfonso Brescia's "Killer Calibro 32" is a decent, although not exceptionally breathtaking Spaghetti Western, which does not get boring for a minute and shouldn't be missed by fans of the genre. "Killer Caliber .32" doesn't contain any new, or very imaginative elements, but the story of an antihero, a contract killer in this case, is delivered very well and although the movie is certainly no genre-highlight or masterpiece, lovers of the Italian Western should be pleased with this solid and very entertaining film.Hired gun Silver (Peter Lee Lawrence) is a contract killer with style. He will kill a man for 1000 dollars, but he wouldn't quite take any job. He proudly says that he only kills people who deserve to die, he uses silver bullets, and he insists on being called 'Mr. Silver' not just 'Silver'. His paying customers include poor Mexican workers, who want him to get rid of their despotic boss, a sadistic landowner, or a saloon owner who needs him to kill a brutal bandit. Silver always waits for his target person to draw his gun out, so he can always claim self-defense. After doing a job in a little town, Silver gets hired by the owners of a local bank to eliminate a gang of outlaws who constantly rob the stagecoaches, and who killed all the passengers on their last raid.When I first saw this film, I wasn't quite sure if Peter Lee Lawrence was the right man to play the role of contract killer Silver, since he just looked too young (early 20s), in my opinion. One must say, however, that he played his role well, and after seeing the movie I had changed my mind. Beautiful Hélène Chanel, who plays the daughter of a murder victim, also delivers a nice performance. The cast furthermore contains Alberto Dell'Acqua, whom Spaghetti Western fans might know for playing Franco Nero's younger brother in Ferdinando Baldi's "Texas Addio" of 1966. The rest of the performances are not bad either, but I can't say any of them were particularly worth mentioning. What I really liked about "Killer Caliber .32" was the fact that Silver stays an antihero throughout the whole movie, he doesn't have a problem to shoot people, even if they are already wounded and lying on the ground. The score by Robby Poitevin is also quite good, again, nothing phenomenal, but decent.All said, "Killer Calibro 32" is a solid and very entertaining Spaghetti Western with a fair amount of violence, nothing spectacular, but certainly a film that my fellow fans of the genre should not miss. Recommended. 7/10